A bit of depth of field can never harm! Learn how to tweak your render settings in Mantra for final rendering.
Houdini In Five Minutes 05: Making Your Rendering Look Nicer
A bit of depth of field can never harm! Learn how to tweak your render settings in Mantra for final rendering.
I think you forgot to mention – mantra is not the fastest renderer.
great tutorial! the DOF tip blew my mind!
Could we see this with Renderman23? For new people, on a budget, tools like Redshift are out of our reach, but Renderman does at least have a non-commercial version and I have read that it is faster than Mantra.
Here’s a video outlining some differences. Mantra is dead last!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOrPKz1SlYE
The link is so 2019… 😉
My problem is that I can’t get the background not reflected the pointlight with 17.5 and 18. It’s still reflecting the light from the pointlight. And I do exactly the same, uncheck the base reflactions in the classic shader linked to the grid.
Very strange.
I’ve downloaded the file and this one renders perfectly fine, so I’ve to check what I’ve really missed. :\